Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Sinnicks


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The result was delete. czar 19:14, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Steven Sinnicks

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Advertorially toned WP:BLP of a musician with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. This is based almost entirely on primary sources and blogs, with only a tiny smattering of reliable source media coverage which emanates entirely from the local media in the city where he was based at the time. While this was clearly written with an eye to passing NMUSIC criteria, it missed: charting claims are stacked onto the non-IFPI certified CMJ New Music Monthly, which was falsely described as a Canadian national pop chart rather than the US-based college radio chart that it really is; award wins are exclusively local to his own hometown; radio airplay claims are stacked entirely onto college radio stations, with the exception of a CBC Radio claim that's sourced to a playlist on the web-only CBC Hamilton (which is (a) his own hometown again, and (b) not evidence of being playlisted by the national CBC Radio network, which is what it would take to pass NMUSIC on radio airplay.)

In addition, the article was literally a jungle of linkfarming for the personal webpages of non-notable collaborators until I cleaned it up for WP:ELNO compliance just now. Further, I need to call attention to Draft:Steve Sinnicks, which is basically the exact same article and has been rejected ten times at AFC for the same reasons I'm bringing up here — it would appear that this time the creator simply copy-pasted the draft and bypassed AFC instead of following proper process.

As always, a musician is not automatically entitled to a Wikipedia article just because he exists -- he must be reliably sourceable as passing WP:NMUSIC, but literally nothing here satisfies either part of that equation. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 21:56, 17 June 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete non-notable musician.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:28, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jenks24 (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: The strongest references I could find within the article were these two CBC links: and, both of which would not qualify the article for WP:NMUSIC. Aust331 (talk) 16:00, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge with draft version and tag as low potential per Wikipedia_talk:Drafts. WikiCreativeJuicer (talk) 09:35, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * WikiCreativeJuicer has been blocked as a sockpuppet. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:47, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, no indication of coverage in reliable sources beyond his hometown. Huon (talk) 19:43, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


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